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Scroll down the typography page.

No, I understand what you’re trying to get, but there’s not much else I can offer to help. Assuming there is no user error, it’s time for one of the tagDiv team members to look at it for you. There’s either a quirk I haven’t encountered, in spite of my ongoing and relentless meddling with it all, or there is another issue that requires access to the admin to locate.

Mind you, I’m just a fellow user of the theme trying to help out where I can as appreciation for the help I’ve received.

They should be online soon and able to help. They in something like one and a half to two hours from now.

You’re using W3 Total Cache – Be sure to empty all caches after selecting the Blog Style header and saving changes, then load it up and see how it works. The only other thing coming to mind would be custom CSS hard-coding the header into place, which isn’t likely.

Make sure the cache is cleared.

Please post a link to the site where this can be seen first-hand, if the above doesn’t work.

It’s in the theme panel, under the Header tab.

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Enjoy.

div.td-grid-wrap { background-color: #d6d6d6; }

Add that to your custom CSS and change the color to your preference. It should be noted that there is no quick way to do this. Immediate inspection found that the pagination background remained white, and the footer background was taken over by this color change as well.

Another possibility is to search/replace #FFFFFF in the main CSS file with the color of your choosing, but this may alter anything from backgrounds, to boxes, borders, text, etc.

A theme panel option to set the background color of the content area would be nice. Until then, though, it’s a custom job. Use the Inspect tool in FireFox and Chrome to identify the classes/IDs of the areas that you want to change, then add the adjusted rules to your custom CSS.

It should also be noted that everything else, regarding categories and the theme panel, is working great. I am not having any of the problems recently reported in the forum by other users.

Aren’t we just talking about a theme setting for how to handle processing of images within the content? If set to “Use Modal Lightbox”, all content images are given the style of .td-modal-image. If set to “Use Standard Image Processing”, all content images are untreated. There’s a bit of IF analysis involved to determine if the image links to its larger version.

Honestly, the theme could manage the link to the larger image itself to accomplish this without much effort.

For those of us with large sites, manually adding the modal box to images isn’t an option. Definitely an idea for consideration when Radu gets back.

Lucian, got the update to 4.2 today but it still has the much older VC plugin version. No update. Really would like to clear my update notifications… and be up-to-date. Thanks.

Check around the 3.7 update. Visual Composer was removed as a build-in and changed to a plugin within Newspaper. The normal update process does not apply. As mentioned here https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/visual-composer-stop-working-after-update-to-latest-newspaper-version-3-8-1/

The problem is Photon in Jet Pack. It RESIZES the image to the WRONG size for some unknown reason.

The Newspaper Featured Image Placeholder feature is not compatible with Jet Pack’s Photon CDN. Photon is needed – how do I force the correct size, or disable Photon resizing the featured image placeholder?

Also, as a thank you for the jab, you were wrong. Photon resized a 1074px width image down to the same incorrect 700×454 – it didn’t crop it either.

I got this theme to 92/100 page speed score by using Photon, more like 82/100 without it. Really need your help. I figure there must be a bit of CSS that will force the correct size for the slide to show correctly with Photon on. Or perhaps it’s time to put a fix into Newspaper for this compatibility issue.

Why would I have to make edits for the default thumbnails included in the theme to fit their display areas as defined by the theme????????

http://screencast.com/t/7IyXAcTIWZiM

Notice the directory structure is the core Newspaper directory upon download, not upload – WordPress has nothing to do with this issue. I’m not messing with the thumbnails WordPress generates. I’m using the Newspaper default images and they do not fit the slide. My custom default images are named exactly the same and with the same .png format and precise dimensions as these pictured. This isn’t a custom code issue.

And I don’t upload a featured image in every post for two reasons:
1. I don’t want a featured image on loop-single.php for every post. Good thing for me the theme comes with built-in default image support for posts without a featured image.

2. There are a lot of old posts that don’t have a featured image. These posts also have no images within the posts.

All I need to know is what the minimum dimensions of that slide image need to be to fit the slide.

There should be absolutely NO CROPPING of that default image. Images made at 745×483 (Matches included theme files) or 743×481 (Matches themes default slide resize) gets sucked down to 700×454 (Too small to fill the space).

That area is 743×481 (Actual pixel dimensions of the slide, no borders or padding applies) so the image must show as 743×481 to fill the area allowed for it.

Thanks

The post views were not being tracked until Newspaper was installed, therefore it is only showing the views since it was installed.

The views are stored in the Custom Fields for each post. If you know what they should be then you can edit them to reflect views from before the theme installation.

Try this.

div.thumb-wrap {
background-color: #ffffff !important;
}

That sounds like a bug these guys can fix. Like I said, every browser is different in how it handles things. Usually color is universal but perhaps they have something else working on the icons and that’s why it affected your site.

Nice catch.

Yeah, that took of the problem for me too. Thanks!

@Lancelot, what host do you use? I run Host Gator and am having this issue. No error but no function either.

Radu,

http://prntscr.com/3gr5uc – Installed your suggested plugin for email, here shows settings in green. Test email received fine on my end.

http://prntscr.com/3gr6aq – Left it sitting for about 15 minutes after trying to login, this is what I came back to.

http://prntscr.com/3gr7m1 – Settings are correct all around.

Cannot LOGIN or REGISTER via this form on a production install with various plugins, Apache server, php 5.4, WP 3.9, Newspaper 3.8.
Cannot LOGIN or REGISTER via this form on test install on xampp with WP 3.9, Newspaper 3.8, Apache server and php 5.5 and ONLY the plugins that the Newspaper plugin installer asks for and WP Mail SMTP setup.

I’m glad it’s working for you Radu, it just doesn’t matter. You have proof it’s not working for us…

I don’t care about registrations but the logging in part is important.

???

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WordPress has that feature built in – no need to custom code that.

My question was quite clear; how can the site recognize the bar is there and not HIDE behind it?

And there’s the awesomeness I was hoping for on this subject.

Thank you Mr. Simmons.

After doing some research on it (thanks for pointing me in that direction) I’ve found that the H1 tag is the most SEO recognized tag. The others below it (H2-H6) are used for navigating content and sometimes, if Google doesn’t like the H1 tag it will substitute a lower heading tag as the page title.

Now with that said you’re right, Newspaper does not follow best practices for SEO heading tags. Currently the page title is an H1 and you suggest the following structure:

H1 > Page Title
H2 > Block Title
H3 > Post Title in blocks

But since this theme so readily includes options not to show the block title, whether in builder blocks or widget blocks, that would break the SEO of the heading tags anyway.

H1 > Page Title
H3 > Post Title in blocks

The revised structure would look like this, and it’s a big heading tag no-no to skip levels like H1 to H3/H2 to H4.

What I haven’t found is anything referencing any sort of disparity regarding SEO for using an H3 tag after an H4 tag.

Moreover, how many of us build a homepage in Newspaper and actually use the page title on that homepage? I haven’t seen one yet and I check most every link people post here helping with common support, my own site included. That means our homepages have no H1 tags and that is a big SEO problem in itself.

Of course screen readers, which are the secondary reason for using heading tags at all behind only page structure, use heading tags to navigate the page for the visitor. Would you rather the visitor first reach a content title or a structural block title?

Honestly I don’t see a right answer for this on this theme.

@Marius Great to know. Thanks

That did work, but it should be noted that I had to disable the speed booster plugin for the changes to be visible on the site. I have no caching plugins even installed and deactivated. Little odd but did the trick.

Thanks again @Marius.

lol That makes sense because Christopher’s suggestion didn’t help either.

Is there a plan to add some sort of sidebar management to the theme panel? Seems odd to have to create new sidebars from the categories section.

Thx @Marius.

What you’re wanting is loop-single.php with a loop of posts afterward like homepage with loop. I’ve found no shortcode to accomplish this. You’d need to make a new post template from the homepage with loop page template (easiest way) but that’s not a feature in Newspaper. My advice is to hire a programmer for this task as it’s quite complicated requiring js, php, html, and css knowledge to make it work.